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[trans-plant, -plahnt, trans-plant, -plahnt] / trænsˈplænt, -ˈplɑnt, ˈtrænsˌplænt, -ˌplɑnt /


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The coastal village of Onna -- home to the Okinawa science institute -- has been spearheading efforts since 1999 to breed corals and transplant them into the sea.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

Biliary atresia is the leading cause of pediatric liver transplants and currently has no approved therapeutic options beyond surgery or liver transplant, Ipsen said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

He urgently needs a "Berlin heart" - a device which could stabalise his condition while he's in intensive care awaiting a heart transplant.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

The 79-year-old former Hall & Oates rocker says he recently underwent a kidney transplant from ‘a very kind and generous living donor.’

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

You will see by his letters what pains he is taking to invite a reinforcement, at all events, there, and to transplant the war to the Southern Colonies.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

This has a direct impact on the more than 100,000 patients currently awaiting lifesaving transplants, whose lives depend on Americans saying “yes” to organ donation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Many immigrants - and northern transplants - are now drawn to the south, especially the bustling economies of cities in Texas and Florida.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

We bonded over being transplants to Seattle — him from the Dominican Republic, me from Florida, but we were still figuring out the basics.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

In sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and other low-income regions, relatively few people receive dialysis or kidney transplants.

From Science Daily May 29, 2026

She looks like she’s been Googling again, up until the early hours of the morning, reading page after page, article after article, on lung transplants.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

The feat followed trial and error that initially saw him mollycoddle corals in stress-free environments, but those easily perished in the ocean once transplanted.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

When APCs from young mice were transplanted into older mice, they generated relatively few new fat cells.

From Science Daily Jun. 27, 2026

Based on a 1998 Vibe magazine article about street racing import cars in New York, the film was transplanted to Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

How Von Mierers convinced his followers that they, too, were transplanted aliens, or that he wasn’t hawking the same stuff as countless other grifter-preachers, isn’t made clear.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

They called themselves Americans, but they were transplanted Englishmen.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

In practice, he argues, many innovations grow out of existing ones, often by borrowing or transplanting concepts from one field to another.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

She was a master gardener, expert at transplanting Japanese maples, according to her neighbor, Patty Hall.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2025

To celebrate the company’s 30th anniversary, they're transplanting the event from Seoul to Middlesex.

From BBC Mar. 19, 2025

"We found that people were actively transplanting and cultivating hazelnuts hundreds of kilometers from their place of origin," Armstrong explains of the expansive trade activity the maps illustrated.

From Science Daily Dec. 6, 2024

She invited my mother over for cards and scrapbooking parties and book club meetings, but Mom was too busy transplanting hearts.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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